A pal of mine, a famous fisherman, once said that he could tell if an angler was any good or not — his phrase — by the way they moved along the riverbank. There is, of course, a lot more to catching fish than being able to approach the water in a deadly way but the likelihood is that if an angler knows how to make the approach then they understand fish and so, very likely, the skills and tactics needed to catch them.

Plenty of anglers kill their chances stone dead before making a cast because of where they move, when